Concha Jerez
19 Jul 2014 - 06 Jan 2015
CONCHA JEREZ
Interferences in the Media
19 July 2014 - 6 January 2015
Curatorship: Alicia Murría
Coordination: Helena López Camacho
Concha Jerez. Interferences in the Media, is a specific project created by the artist for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla –which consists of 21 works (including installations, pieces and site-specific interventions) produced between 1974 and 2014– offers a journey through a substantial part of Concha Jerez’s career: that which focuses on the media and its extraordinary influence in shaping what we understand as “reality”.
The project is built around three axes that are directly related to the common practices of Concha Jerez: the exhibitive axis, based on the intervention of space as a medium; the performative axis, which leads the viewer into different concepts of time through ephemeral in-person actions; and the educational axis, which establishes a dialogue by means of creation and knowledge.
The 21 works (including installations, pieces and site-specific interventions) that make up the exhibition Concha Jerez. Interferences in the Media were produced between 1974 and 2014 and offer a journey through a substantial part of Concha Jerez’s career: that which focuses on the media and its extraordinary influence in shaping what we understand as “reality”. Her goal is focused on the recipient’s chances of exercising critical forms of interpretation.
Using the media as raw material, these works deal with history, memory and oblivion (Desarticulación de un partido político... [Outlawing a Political Party...], Jardín de ausentes [Garden of the Absent], Que nos roban la memoria [Our Memory Is Being Stolen]), the mechanisms of censorship and self-censorship (Paisaje de memoria [Landscape of Memory]), the role of art and the purpose of the critic (Propuesta sobre la significación del estilo... [Proposal on the Significance of Style...]), the systematic silencing of the contributions of women throughout history and still today (Caja de cotidianidad [Box of Routine]), the consumer society (Paisaje de Interferencias [Landscape of Interference]), the culture of entertainment, the impact of advertising, the different forms of control of political and economic power over the individual, the sophisticated surveillance and control exercised in developed societies (Paisaje electrónico [Electronic Landscape]), or the small margin of freedom offered by democratic systems.
Through her work, Jerez proposes the dismantling of the dominant discourses produced and reproduced by the media (mainly written press and television).
The exhibition does not follow a chronological order; it is divided into three rooms where works from different periods, some of which have been adapted for MUSAC, coexist.
Among the works that will be presented in MUSAC are two interventions created specifically for the museum space: Paisajes de infinitos metros cúbicos de personas desaparecidas [Landscape of Infinite Cubic Metres of Missing People] will be exhibited in the patio, and Paisaje de ambigüedad [Landscape of Ambiguity] will be showcased in different areas of the museum through the insertion of brief texts.
The exhibition is rounded off by a documentary space that features publications and video art material on the different works produced by the artist, and also grants access to the EXPANDED RADIO archive of José Iges and Concha Jerez. A computer allows the spectator to browse through audio and video material, texts in both Spanish and English and other documents, including musical scores, diagrams and images. The archive focuses on the radio art works that Concha Jerez has produced in partnership with José Iges between 1990 and 2014, as well as the installations, performances, concerts and videos related to or derived from them. These pages have been designed by the authors with the support of composer, percussionist and computer technician Pedro López.
Interferences in the Media
19 July 2014 - 6 January 2015
Curatorship: Alicia Murría
Coordination: Helena López Camacho
Concha Jerez. Interferences in the Media, is a specific project created by the artist for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla –which consists of 21 works (including installations, pieces and site-specific interventions) produced between 1974 and 2014– offers a journey through a substantial part of Concha Jerez’s career: that which focuses on the media and its extraordinary influence in shaping what we understand as “reality”.
The project is built around three axes that are directly related to the common practices of Concha Jerez: the exhibitive axis, based on the intervention of space as a medium; the performative axis, which leads the viewer into different concepts of time through ephemeral in-person actions; and the educational axis, which establishes a dialogue by means of creation and knowledge.
The 21 works (including installations, pieces and site-specific interventions) that make up the exhibition Concha Jerez. Interferences in the Media were produced between 1974 and 2014 and offer a journey through a substantial part of Concha Jerez’s career: that which focuses on the media and its extraordinary influence in shaping what we understand as “reality”. Her goal is focused on the recipient’s chances of exercising critical forms of interpretation.
Using the media as raw material, these works deal with history, memory and oblivion (Desarticulación de un partido político... [Outlawing a Political Party...], Jardín de ausentes [Garden of the Absent], Que nos roban la memoria [Our Memory Is Being Stolen]), the mechanisms of censorship and self-censorship (Paisaje de memoria [Landscape of Memory]), the role of art and the purpose of the critic (Propuesta sobre la significación del estilo... [Proposal on the Significance of Style...]), the systematic silencing of the contributions of women throughout history and still today (Caja de cotidianidad [Box of Routine]), the consumer society (Paisaje de Interferencias [Landscape of Interference]), the culture of entertainment, the impact of advertising, the different forms of control of political and economic power over the individual, the sophisticated surveillance and control exercised in developed societies (Paisaje electrónico [Electronic Landscape]), or the small margin of freedom offered by democratic systems.
Through her work, Jerez proposes the dismantling of the dominant discourses produced and reproduced by the media (mainly written press and television).
The exhibition does not follow a chronological order; it is divided into three rooms where works from different periods, some of which have been adapted for MUSAC, coexist.
Among the works that will be presented in MUSAC are two interventions created specifically for the museum space: Paisajes de infinitos metros cúbicos de personas desaparecidas [Landscape of Infinite Cubic Metres of Missing People] will be exhibited in the patio, and Paisaje de ambigüedad [Landscape of Ambiguity] will be showcased in different areas of the museum through the insertion of brief texts.
The exhibition is rounded off by a documentary space that features publications and video art material on the different works produced by the artist, and also grants access to the EXPANDED RADIO archive of José Iges and Concha Jerez. A computer allows the spectator to browse through audio and video material, texts in both Spanish and English and other documents, including musical scores, diagrams and images. The archive focuses on the radio art works that Concha Jerez has produced in partnership with José Iges between 1990 and 2014, as well as the installations, performances, concerts and videos related to or derived from them. These pages have been designed by the authors with the support of composer, percussionist and computer technician Pedro López.